Wheat is a versatile crop that thrives in various climates and soil conditions, making it a profitable choice for greenhouse farmers. Greenhouse farming has become popular due to its strategic role in achieving food security and its potential for positive responses to climate change through CO2 fertilization and adaptation. Wheat is the most widely planted crop on Earth, covering 217 million hectares (536 million acres) devoted to it.
A six-year field experiment in the North China Plain demonstrated the benefits of diversifying traditional cereal monoculture (wheat-maize). Researchers grew wheat in greenhouses at normal or elevated CO2 concentrations, finding that wheat grown in greenhouses produced high-yielding, high-quality wheat varieties that contribute to preserving land’s natural resources through water and nitrogen-efficient wheats.
Wheat is one of the fastest-growing crops, making it an excellent cover crop in established gardens. However, factors such as Martian soil, climate, and atmospheric gases cannot sustain Earth’s growth. Winter crops grow slower due to synthetic fertilizer, which contributes to climate change, algae blooms, and oceanic “dead zones”.
Wheat grows best in full daylight, with at least six hours of sunlight daily. Winter wheat ripens in midsummer, making it an excellent cover crop in established gardens. A meta-analysis evaluated the impact of plastic film mulching (PM) and straw mulching (SM) on grain yields and greenhouse gas emissions.
Open field cultivation is generally preferred for staple grains like wheat and corn, while tender vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers thrive in outdoor fields. However, some crops grow better indoors, and some crops may benefit from indoor vertical farms under optimized growing conditions.
📹 Growing Wheat For The First Time
It has been really interesting to growing wheat for the first time, with quite different needs while growing and quite labour intensive …
Why is wheat the best crop?
Wheat is a unique cereal crop grown on over240 million hectares, providing more nourishment for humans than any other food source. Its agronomic adaptability, ease of grain storage, and ability to convert grain into flour make it a major diet component. Doughs made from bread wheat flour have unique viscoelastic properties, making them more nutritious than other cereals. Wheat is the most important source of carbohydrates in most countries, with easy digestibility of starch and most wheat protein. It contains minerals, vitamins, and fats, and with a small amount of animal or legume protein added, it is highly nutritious. A wheat-based diet is higher in fiber than an animal-based diet.
Wheat is also a popular source of animal feed, especially in years when harvests are adversely affected by rain. Low-grade wheat is often used in industry to make adhesives, paper additives, and alcohol production. World wheat production increased dramatically between 1951-1990, reaching an all-time high of 592 million tonnes in 1990. However, the share of wheat output from high-income countries has fallen from about 45 percent in the early 1950s to about 35 percent in recent years.
Policy changes towards crop reserve programs have taken considerable production area from wheat in high-income countries. In the past five years, developing countries have produced more than 45 percent of the world’s wheat.
Is wheat a good green manure crop?
In the autumn, sow green manure that will thrive in cooler conditions, such as cereal crops, legumes, and mustard. It is recommended that warm season manure be incorporated into the soil by means of digging. In the winter months, the soil should be fed with worm juice and seaweed. In the spring, the winter manure should be incorporated into the soil, and summer/warm season green manure, such as cereal, legume, buckwheat, mustard, or millet, should be planted. The use of fenugreek, linseed, or coriander may prove an effective method of disease prevention.
What is the most suitable crop for green manure?
Cover crops, also known as green manures, are plants that gardeners use to provide organic matter and nutrients to the soil. These include legumes like vetch, clover, beans, and peas, grasses like ryegrass, oats, rapeseed, winter wheat, and winter rye, and buckwheat. Some gardeners sow cover crops in spring to improve soil and eliminate weeds. In established vegetable or flower gardens, cover crops are planted early in the season, followed by warm-season vegetables, bedding plants, or container-grown perennials. For new garden beds, heat-loving buckwheat or beans are recommended, while ryegrass, rapeseed, or oats are suitable for late summer.
What crop makes farmers the most money?
Saffron, also known as “red gold”, is the most profitable agricultural crop per acre due to its high market value. It requires careful cultivation but offers unmatched potential earnings. Bamboo shoots, a unique alternative to traditional crops, offer a lucrative niche market with culinary appeal in many cuisines. Elderberries, a health-conscious crop, are also profitable due to their health benefits and culinary versatility. These crops can attract health-conscious consumers and add a profitable dimension to small farms’ offerings.
What is the best green manure for winter?
Winter grazing rye and winter tares are hardy green manures that grow all winter before being buried back into the soil in spring. They are used to cover bare soil in spaces between crops or intervals between crops. Green manures are fast-growing plants that smother weeds and prevent soil erosion. When dug into the ground while still green, they return valuable nutrients and improve soil structure.
They protect soil, suppress weeds, and improve fertility. They are typically sown in late summer to early autumn and can be left for 1-2 years after sowing. They have variable height and spread, needing sun or some shade, and are hardy or frost-tender.
Is wheat a good rotation crop?
Winter wheat is a valuable crop residue that can be effectively managed by farmers using stripper headers on combines. This method removes only the heads of the plant, leaving behind the rest, which protects the soil from wind erosion and traps snow, increasing soil moisture. Researchers at the University of Illinois found that adding wheat to the crop rotation increases the yield of corn and soybean crops.
A three-year summary showed that corn grown in a three-crop rotation (soybean/wheat/corn) yielded 4% more than corn in a corn/soybean rotation, and 6% higher yields in a wheat/soybean/corn rotation. Soybeans in both three-crop rotations yielded 4% more than corn in the corn/soybean rotation. Producers should consider adding wheat to their rotation in late July or early August.
What greenhouse crop is most profitable?
Bamboo, a popular decorative plant in Iran, is a highly profitable greenhouse product due to its ability to grow well in various conditions. Its high speed and high profit margin make it a popular choice for greenhouses in the country. Luxury grapes, a delicious and beautiful grape variety in Iran, are also considered profitable greenhouse products due to their special care requirements. Lastly, medicinal herbs, which are diverse and demanding, are also profitable greenhouse products in Iran.
As demand for these plants increases, greenhouse conditions should be suitable for planting and selling them to the Iranian market, ensuring high profits. Overall, growing bamboo, luxury grapes, and medicinal herbs in greenhouses can yield significant profits in the Iranian market.
What climate is best for growing wheat?
Wheat is a crop that flourishes in temperatures between 21° and 24° Celsius (70° and 75° Fahrenheit), though it does not tolerate excessive heat. It requires ample sunlight, particularly during the grain-filling stage.
Where in the world does wheat grow best?
Wheat varieties flourish in well-drained loamy soil, which is predominantly composed of sand, silt, and a minor proportion of clay.
Is wheat hard to grow?
Wheat can be grown at home, either in spring or fall, or as winter wheat. Winter wheat is a popular crop due to its ease of cultivation. To plant, choose a spot with full sun, at least six hours of sunlight per day, and well-draining soil amended with organic matter like compost, straw, or shredded leaves. Planting 25 plants per square foot can yield between 10 and 12 pounds of wheat grain when harvested from a 100 square-foot plot. Local farmers markets or nursery can help source seedlings for planting.
Which crop is best after wheat?
Small grains like oats and spring barley grow rapidly in late summer and continue until a hard freeze, producing significant residue to reduce soil erosion. They can be harvested in the fall as a forage, but this reduces their effectiveness in reducing spring erosion. Annual ryegrass (ARG) is a popular and economical cover crop, but its potential to become difficult to control due to its potential to overwinter in the Midwest with mild conditions and its prolific seed production.
Winter rye or winter triticale can be planted in August-September for late summer and over-winter cover, producing a thick cover in the fall and growing rapidly in early spring. These cover crops need to be terminated by late April before they grow too large and become difficult to manage. They can also be harvested in the spring as a forage.
📹 How to Grow Wheat In a Greenhouse
How to Grow Wheat In a Greenhouse. Although most people think of wheat as a grain, wheat is also a grass. Just after corn, wheat …
I did this a few years ago. I found it easier to just cut off and reserve the heads in a pair of old pillow cases, and just rolled my car back n forth a few times to loosen and separate all the hulls . . . then I just poured the result in front of a strong fan and into a pail, with the chaff getting blown away.
This is EXACTLY what I’ve been thinking of doing! I make my own sourdough and have a little mill and grind wheat. Australia is a great wheat growing country too, so following your experience, I will definitely try it. There are some vids on YouTube where people use old food processors for threshing and all kinds of other equipment to process the grain, which could make it less labour intensive. I loved your hen cleaner-uppers too!! GREAT article!!
As a child, my grandfather would bind wheat into sheaves with a horse drawn binder, they where then set up on groups of 10 to 12 leaving space so air could dry the grain, a sheave was placed over the top in such a way as to place the straw or butts facing the prevailing wind. To see if the wheat was ready to thrash, a few heads where rubbed between the hands, if the chaff came off easily and the grain was firm it was further tested by eating it and if crunchy but would form like a gum without to much effort it was ready. Sometimes we would use a flail, two straight branches one 4 feet long and the other 3 feet long tied together with a leather cord and then beat the stocks on a tarp. After the grain had fallen off the straw was raked off and then it was tossed into the air, grain falling to the tarp and chaff blowing away. Hope you liked growing wheat, non gmo is great to make whole wheat and multi grain sour dough or plain bread. Which can be cooked in a dutch oven over a fire.
I love baking bread, and the idea of planting an intermixed variety and letting the local climate select for the most suitable is very appealing. I’ve got more land than I can use for my vegetable garden, and I have let large portions of it turn to meadow. I think you may have inspired me to try wheat for next season. Plus, I don’t feel compelled to build raised beds for grains!
Six inches from my left elbow is a book called ‘Growing Wheat on a Small Scale’. There’s a long story attached to this book. Ps For two autumns recently, I broadcast sowed a Winter Green Manure mix of Grazing Rye and Winter Tares. Your lovely article encourages me to let that grow to maturity some day.
Seldom do I watch a single article from a new website and think “yes, all of this, yes!” Your demeanour, your approach and content was thoroughly enjoyable and as a result I’ve subscribed because I really do want to see what else you’ve got in store 🙂 Thank you! And I’m sure the next articles I watch will be just as informative and enjoyable!
Inspired us to grow red winter wheat this year, and here in southern california it has been the perfect storm of a year to grow wheat. Cool, wet winter, and a dry but temperate past couple months to let the wheat fill out – planted it in october and will harvest tomorrow. The berries we ended up growing are about 2.5x the size of the berries we planted, and we’ll be harvesting tomorrow to get a final yield on all we grew. Thank you for the inspiration!
I’m in Cumbria, and have notice the price of bread jumping up substantially. With the war in Eastern Europe and climate challenges in the US and Canada, wheat’s potentially going to be harder to source. I was with friends last night who grow most of their food as I do, and we reckoned it’s time to look at growing our own bread. Thankyou for your insights and starting our journey into this.
Very interesting article. There is very little information about small scale wheat growing and processing, due to fact that (as you mention) vegetables are easier with less processing. But small scale wheat growing is something I want to try in rotation with poultry as soon as I have the space available. Great to have the details and information on yield you have given here. Thank you!
Thanks for posting this article. I have tested growing Khorasan Wheat a few times. The plants get very tall. If i get some time this year I will grow it again and rotate it with rice and try out a Masanou Fukuoka Style of No dig growing with a clover. I would love to get some bread out of my home grown wheat. Please get us posted about your next wheat sowing project. Thanks!!
The beauty of wheat is so pleasant! I also really love colorful corn, any corn really, and sweet sorghum…I had 12-14 foot stalks this year they were super sweet to chew. I grew corn, wheat, and sorghum while I was visiting Ireland, the sorghum took off during our drought back home. The corn did pretty well, but the wheat was overtaken this year by weeds. The best heritage wheat in Maine is Red Fife, so I hear. Very beautiful reddish golden seeds. I would add you get the value add of well-fed chickens and meat & eggs from the spilled wheat…that’s a real win!
I don’t know anyone else who grows grain on a personal level. This is very interesting! Have you read “The One-Straw Revolution” by Masanobu Fukuoka? His method of growing rice (also some wheat and rye) involved not-flooded fields, direct-seeding, and no-dig. He returned all chaff and straw to the field where it was grown, scattering it across the top randomly, where it acted as a mulch for the next crop. He grew two kinds of grain in every field every year, for example seeding rice to grow over summer, then when harvested its straw becomes the mulch for the rye crop he would grow over winter in the same field. And then the rye straw becomes the mulch for the next rice crop. In this way he increased the humus/topsoil of his fields by several inches over a number of decades. I’m sure you would enjoy that book if you can find a copy. Parts of it are very philosophical, or poetic, not just technical. I like the artwork too.
My grandpa had built a machine to do the threshing based on the designs of a conventional combine harvester and had it powered by an electric motor that ran off a 12v car battery. While it damages seed quite a bit more than the threshing system you showed, it seems more efficient. It is not able to handle the amount of straw though and this probably causes the damage since straw acts as a cushion provided there is not so much to prevent threshing. I would think that a slightly larger build of such a thresher could be made to handle the straw and allow for efficient threshing without a lot less damage. Of course, such an investment would probably only be practical if you intend on growing wheat for a number of growing seasons.
43.1 bushels per acre. That’s less than commercial yields, but not terrible. Since the article is a couple of years old, I’m sure this has been gone over, but I’ll point out a couple of things I didn’t see mentioned: 1. Even choosing a mix of varieties, it’s probably best to be uniform by type. Mixing winter wheat and spring wheat could be a problem, for example, and you would like to have uniform suitability for purpose, i.e., use all hard or all soft varieties. 2. Regarding space, if you choose winter wheat that’s less of a problem. You’ll be able to harvest in late spring or early summer and should still have enough time to use the space for other crops. If you normally have unused space you’re just planting a cover crop in, then winter small grains are an option for getting some additional yield from that space.
I recently found out about a Variety called. Sonora Wheat. Dates back to 1690 or so. Planted a row and sowed very heavy. As it started to grow I experimented with it. Ended up cutting it way back 3 times. Still coming up with very decent heads and should be good harvest. Later found out Google says can be grazed off at least twice and still produce well. Does tolerate drought type conditions. Easy to harvest also. I am So Pleased So far. Live in the Arizona Desert. About a month ago I planted couple more rows.
I started experimenting with oats and rye a year ago as backup animal feed that I can grow over winter. It’s pretty and it provides a sense of security along with the buckwheat I grow every autumn. I have no interest in processing grain all the way to bread. I’m sure those who do get a fine understanding of how amazing modern mechanization is.
Very good article! I would like to grow wheat but I need a cup of flour every day. I don’t want to be a full-time wheat farmer. I am in Thailand and ground wheat is very inexpensive. After seeing the excellent article of the wheat swaying in the wind I am thinking about growing some just to look at like a flower. I subscribed. Keep up the good work. I like how serious and straight forward it is. I am not meeting my social needs with Youtube. I just want information. This kind of article is what I like.
The traditional method is to remove the grain from the chaff, it by threshing, you put the wheat in old pillowcases and beating on it with a flail, then you use a fork and later sieves to seperate the straw, after that you do wind winnowing, similar to what you did, but with special equipment, either a large flat bowl or even better a woven winnowing fan, a skilled person can remove all chaff and almost all dust, while loosing almost no good grain. The process is obviously a lot more effective with the equipment, multiple people and everyone having experience with it, in my school we did that a few times during autumn, it is labour intensive, but not as much as what you did, we also used a scythe to harvest and had around 2000m^2 spelt, which took us about one afternoon to harvest and process to clean grain, with 12-15 children(age 9-13) and 2 adults.
It is really pleasant perusal wheat grow and blow in the wind. I grow it primarily as a cover crop however every year I make a few loaves out of it. To get the wheat kernels out of the head I drop the heads into a Sun Joe leaf mulcher. That whips the seeds loose from the chaff. I use a fan to winnow as the wind is unpredictable. With regards to competing with big growers, it isn’t necessary. Simply enjoy the experience and the quality of the grain.
Excellent article! I am establishing an 8,100 sq ft no-dig garden (size is limited by 10 ft deer fence), and am considering devoting a portion to wheat (want to try my hand at Khorasan), as this garden space is dedicated to feeding just my wife and myself. To that end, I’m trying to diversify my growing to cover as much of the actual food that we eat. Quick question…roughly how many man-hours went in to harvesting, threshing and winnowing? Just want to get a rough idea of what I’m in for, since my garden is worked entirely by hand. Thanks for the article, and please keep up the great work!
I think a good use for small quantities of homegrown grain like wheat, amaranth or millet is to chuck some in with rice if you cook it often in a rice cooker. They sell small packets of mixed grain and beans for this purpose in Korea and Japan. It would give more diverse nutrition than plain white rice and you don’t really have to process it.
Hi, I know this is an old article but I’d love to know where you got the seed for the wheat population from. I’m in Scotland and am considering growing wheat at a slightly larger scale and would love to grow from a population. If the population you grew was developed in Ireland I’d be interested to hear – it might well be be better suited for my conditions than others
Great article. I see the processing of our grain as my ‘down time’! As I’m perusal this I’m picking out the weed seeds on a white dish..a bit like panning for gold. You get proficient after a while and it becomes quiet therapeutic. Tip? – when winnowing, I use a larger container on the floor to catch the grains from a greater height and then let the chickens into the area later. With all the grain crop losses going on in the world at present I think your article, and encouraging other to grow grains, is more pertinent than ever.🐿️”
15 pounds on 1/200 of an acre is something like ~50 bu/acre (i think it is 60 lbs/bu). That is a good yield today, and if you were roman. Interestingly, bu/ac is the modern way of looking at things, it used to be the ratio of harvest to seed. (You did great there too for wheat. I think the famines in early 14th century europe occured when yields dropped to 2:1 from 6:1. )
Interesting, I would like to grow small amounts of grain with hand power too if I ever have the space. Have you considered selecting the heads that you save for seed before the main harvest? You could select only the best looking plants and cut the heads off with scissors and collect them, thus exerting an additional selection pressure on the gene pool. Might lead to a less diverse gene pool, but would probably guide the whole thing toward a more stable and better variety faster.
nice, that seems reasonable for home grain production. And of course, intensifying this in some manner will improve future yields. I think one way to stretch home grain would be to grow specialty grains and use commercial flour as your base. Various breads and even pastas call for different ratios of various flours. Let the big companies grow the all-purpose/white flour, add your own as the specialty flours.
If you would like to try this again here is one thing to keep in mind. While grasses in the wild will drop their seeds when they are ripe, wheat has been bred to hold on to its grains indefinetely. While this works well with modern farming techniques, for the home garden older varieties might work much better, they will be easier to process.
i planted about 14×10′ cover crop with hard white, i bought it from agason farms for emergency food and planting a larger area. i think it was 25 to 40 bucks 40lbs a few years ago. the first year was planted in aug or sept, i live in a formidable dry climate, the growing season can be easily shortened by freezes up until june and as early as october again. i watered the seed planted in clay, hard caliche for a winter green to plow bank into the terrible soil, i dug a hole one time and at 5 feet deep, it still was the same non draining soil. bu the wheat looked good, grew fast and tall, and flowered, only to have empty floretts or whatever they are. so in march or april i plowed that in. but in that year there were quite abit of stray wheat plants that sprouted and like in record time without any focus on them, they flowered and grew berries. they’ve been doing it over and over for 3 or 4 yrs now. i don’t pay any attention to them and long after the plant dries in it’s spot, i’ll collect he berries and those are the ones that seem to always bear fruit.
I can just remember riding on a reaper, and it making sheaves. Making stoops and loading the dried sheaves was done with pitch forks by everyone. I have no recall of what happened next – maybe they were sold on as was. Round where I used to live are quite a few old – back as far as Medieval – winowing barns. Big long buildings, storage on either wing, and a crossway in the middle with big doors either side where the wind would blow through. The threshing floor in the centre. The drawings and paintings from the middle ages showed exactly how it worked. Perhaps in Ireland, in the corner of an old barn, there is a hand threshing machine someone will be glad to see the back of… My last but one house had on its plans the orchard laid to whipple trees. Turned out these were actually crabapple trees, the limbs of which would be used for making flails (and maybe used on carts in high stress places – it is apparently very tough). An interesting project – as you say lots of work. Really only worthwhile when you can starve if the weather is a few days “wrong”. But of course we don’t do all this growing stuff because otherwise we die, at least yet.
ive been perusal a few articles on growing various grains as im interested to try growing some supplumental feed for my quail. I see a lot of people using two buckets and it made me wonder if a leaf blower pointed into a (Clean & dedicated) cement mixer could tumble seperate the chaff and wheat berries.
Grain is fantastic as a crop despite the low yields. You get great compost materials. I had a cornstalk that grew 14 feet tall in rich compost. The ears were long and I’m drying them turning a vegetable into a grain. I also had some wheat but it got weedy and my chickens and ducks knocked down the straw stems and devoured as much as their fat little tummies could eat. I guess it was tasty?
Was wondering if you found wheat growing throughout this year’s garden, from last year’s wheat plot? My friend had 2 rows of wheat (have no idea what kind) last year 2’x30′ each. And this year she had wheat growing in every row, that she did not plant. Luckily, she said they have shallow roots so it was easily pulled out. She only got 2 loaves of bread, and decided the amount of work was not worth it. She continues to BUY bags of grain and grinds it herself.
This article was perfect for me thank you. I have 20 sq m allocated for growing wheat this autumn in South East England. I found only 1 source of small scale seed online so that is what I have. I’m not sure my density of spread will be as much as yours given the seed in the boxes I have. It recommends to plant 6″ apart rather than broadcasting… It’ll be an interesting experiment anyway! All the best.
That’s a lot of stale bread. Did you get it from your baker friend? It is always the case for me that when I’ve gone through the effort to grow something myself, seeing it ‘go to waste’ is always hard for me. Obviously it’s not going to complete waste, but it’s not being eaten, which always hurts my soul a little bit when I’ve grown it myself…
Wheat seems to be easy to grow hydroponically only requiring intense light, it does not seem to benefit as much due to its low demand but it may be easily modified to include more nutrients and an even faster growth cycle, adapting it to the hydroponic environment better, including lesser reliance on green light which would help save energy, did not do the research myself but this the summary of all I found, this includes little in hard parameters which makes the data almost useless though.
okay, quite interestining. But be carefull with the seeds of the weeds like Datura stramonium or with the some fungi like ergot. Normaly you have some kind of spezial treatment after harvest and before using them in bread. Like spezial barrels picking off the ergot und filtering the smaller or bigger weed seeds out.
Your wheat looks nice! I have been thinking about a cereal staple too for quite some time, but for some reasons as a gardener would favor corn over wheat. I recently read the book “The Resilient Gardener” by Carol Deppe, and she highly recommended growing Roy’s Calais flint corn or Abenaki flint corn for the very cool regions. It is said to be an outstanding polenta corn and was the only grain cereal to produce a yield in the 1816 “year without a summer”. I wonder if this might be of interest for your project as an experiment. According to this Mother Earth News article motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/garden-planning/staple-crops-zm0z13jjzsto corn and potato are top ranking for calories produced per growing area. For getting the kernels off the cob and grinding polenta, there are cheap and durable hand tools available. It could even be grown in a three sisters garden.
Don’t forget that you can use wheat berries as they are. I think that way you get the most out of them, without the further processing. I grew and harvested grain in my garden, as some consider lamb’s quarter seeds a grain. I say I grew it, but it is just one of the many “weeds” that happily grow all by themselves. The seeds are so small that dealing with them was very tedious, and most of the “crop” got thrown out. I guess I am not hungry enough to want to do all that work. But the seeds were indeed edible. Amaranth also grows well here, and purslane too. All produce tiny edible seeds. So they say!
very interesting article! we,the “Werkverband Friese Rassen en Gewassen” in Friesland (in the north part of Holland) collect 12 old species of grain,35 species of potatoes,15 species of beans,etc.etc,in total 110 species of old Frisian species;it is very hard to maintain the old races but with the help of a group of volunteers we manage;we got some money from the Provincie Friesland(lokal government) but that stops in 2020 and now we sell seeds in about 12 agri-shops…. it remains a weak project;but:more and more people are interested so we hope our efforts are not in vain; collecting the seeds it is needed for variaty in the fields and using them when diseases break through.we are the only province in Holland that is active on such a scale.
Trench composting bread seems like such a waste/bad idea. Feed bread to chicken to help with meat and egg production and then they make chicken manure for garden. Trench composting would be an option if no animals but trench composting bread would attract lots of unwanted vermin more so than trench composting vegetables. E.g roaches
I have been growing wheat all my life. 8 ozs of Urea would have fertilized your plot. You went to a lot of trouble for almost nothing! Sometimes the truck driver will forget to check if the hopper is still open after the last load. The grain cart driver starts unloading at 500 lbs per second, before he can stop the wheat lost can cover your plot almost an inch deep. Man, wheat is cheaper than dirt on the farm! The wheat is too cheap to pay labor for picking it up in the field.
That is why grains were historically NEVER fed to livestock before the industrial revolution, too much energy to produce and separate… Large scale commercial industrial grain and grass farms are relatively less damaging to nature too because they require less fertility and grow on a wide variety of soils, compared to say potatoes, soy, and corn (which is a grain I believe, but heavy feeder.)
Today’s modern wheat and grains grown commercially generically closer to a rhubarb and contaminated with herbicides and pesticides, so what are we to do ? We cannot continue to feed our families with contaminated GMO foods, I definitely appreciate your information and your math, that’s a huge help, but now how do we move forward on what seems such a monumental task.
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I am looking forward to see the article about the trench composting. I was wondering if you are familiar with the work of Dr Elaine Ingham, an experienced soil specialist, who shows that with the right compost tea fertility increases, weeds decrease, erosion decreases and yield doubles. Here is one of her articles: youtube.com/watch?v=x2H60ritjag